Shawn Wayans Biography
Born: January 19, 1971
As a key member of what many comedy lovers consider to be one of the funniest families on Hollywood, producer/writer/actor Shawn Wayans has been instrumental in bringing such hit parodies as Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, Scary_Movie, and its sequel Scary_Movie_2 to the big screen. Though Wayans has occasionally branched out to appear in such non-Wayans productions as the 1999 action thriller New_Blood, it's mainly family that serves as this funnyman's bread and butter, with a lead role in the WB sitcom The_Wayans_Bros. leading to increasingly prominent roles in such family productions as White_Chicks and Little_Man. Raised in the Chelsea area of Manhattan with his nine siblings, Wayans credits his family's boundless sense of humor in helping him to get by when money was tight and the future looked grim. Supporting roles in such early efforts as elder brother Keenen_Ivory's I'm_Gonna_Git_You_Sucka and the hit sketch comedy series In_Living_Color (for which he also DJ'ed) encouraged Wayans to try his hand at writing, and in the following years he would team with sibling Marlon to great success. Specializing in the kind of low-brow comedy that appealed mainly to the high-school and college set, the two Wayans soon found that an ideal way to gauge the success was in how much their efforts offended their mother. When their disapproving mom walked out on Scary_Movie_2, the pair knew they had a surefire hit on their hands. After appearing as the titular "females" in the 2004 comedy White_Chicks, it was time to shrink his best collaborator down to size for the big-head-on-a-little-body comedy Little_Man in 2006. Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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